About
I'm Matthias Jordan. I'm a photographer and solutions engineer in Southern California. This site is my cozy corner of the web. It is an archive, not a portfolio. Nothing here is for sale.
Photography comes first. I make long exposures of the ocean, aerial and drone work in California, Hawaii, and Baja, and snapshots with film cameras and my iPhone. I also make generative experiments trained on my own images. Some work is collected into series with process notes. Some is just a photograph and a date.
For work, I'm a solutions engineer. I also build things for the web. That includes AT Protocol tools, Cloudflare Workers, small AI hardware projects, and Farfield. Farfield is the self-hosted, content-addressed backend serving this site. I write about what I build, including the parts that do not work.
I cook, too. The recipes here are things I actually make. They use the tabular format from Cooking for Engineers, with ingredients on the left and each step running across the page.
I want a web that's open and personal. I own my data, make handmade sites, and build in the open. There is no account to make and no newsletter to join. This is simply where I keep my work.
Elsewhere
This site
Built with Astro on Cloudflare Workers, reading a self-hosted Farfield backend. Content is content-addressed, every page has a markdown twin, and the whole thing is open source. See developers for the machine-readable surfaces, or now for what I'm up to lately.